Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae
In coastal waters around the world, the dominant primary producers are benthic macrophytes, including seagrasses and macroalgae, that provide habitat structure and food for diverse and abundant biological communities and drive ecosystem processes. Seagrass meadows and macroalgal forests play key rol...
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J. Emmett Duffy Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi Joaquin Trinanes Joaquin Trinanes Joaquin Trinanes Frank E. Muller-Karger Rohani Ambo-Rappe Christoffer Boström Alejandro H. Buschmann Jarrett Byrnes Robert G. Coles Joel Creed Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth Guillermo Diaz-Pulido Carlos M. Duarte Graham J. Edgar Miguel Fortes Gustavo Goni Chuanmin Hu Xiaoping Huang Catriona L. Hurd Craig Johnson Brenda Konar Dorte Krause-Jensen Dorte Krause-Jensen Kira Krumhansl Peter Macreadie Helene Marsh Len J. McKenzie Nova Mieszkowska Patricia Miloslavich Patricia Miloslavich Enrique Montes Masahiro Nakaoka Kjell Magnus Norderhaug Lina M. Norlund Robert J. Orth Anchana Prathep Nathan F. Putman Jimena Samper-Villarreal Ester A. Serrao Frederick Short Isabel Sousa Pinto Peter Steinberg Rick Stuart-Smith Richard K. F. Unsworth Mike van Keulen Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek Mengqiu Wang Michelle Waycott Lauren V. Weatherdon Thomas Wernberg Siti Maryam Yaakub |
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J. Emmett Duffy Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi Joaquin Trinanes Joaquin Trinanes Joaquin Trinanes Frank E. Muller-Karger Rohani Ambo-Rappe Christoffer Boström Alejandro H. Buschmann Jarrett Byrnes Robert G. Coles Joel Creed Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth Guillermo Diaz-Pulido Carlos M. Duarte Graham J. Edgar Miguel Fortes Gustavo Goni Chuanmin Hu Xiaoping Huang Catriona L. Hurd Craig Johnson Brenda Konar Dorte Krause-Jensen Dorte Krause-Jensen Kira Krumhansl Peter Macreadie Helene Marsh Len J. McKenzie Nova Mieszkowska Patricia Miloslavich Patricia Miloslavich Enrique Montes Masahiro Nakaoka Kjell Magnus Norderhaug Lina M. Norlund Robert J. Orth Anchana Prathep Nathan F. Putman Jimena Samper-Villarreal Ester A. Serrao Frederick Short Isabel Sousa Pinto Peter Steinberg Rick Stuart-Smith Richard K. F. Unsworth Mike van Keulen Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek Mengqiu Wang Michelle Waycott Lauren V. Weatherdon Thomas Wernberg Siti Maryam Yaakub Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae Frontiers in Marine Science biodiversity seagrass network macroalgae biodiversity observation network (BON) essential ocean variables (EOV) |
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J. Emmett Duffy Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi Joaquin Trinanes Joaquin Trinanes Joaquin Trinanes Frank E. Muller-Karger Rohani Ambo-Rappe Christoffer Boström Alejandro H. Buschmann Jarrett Byrnes Robert G. Coles Joel Creed Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth Guillermo Diaz-Pulido Carlos M. Duarte Graham J. Edgar Miguel Fortes Gustavo Goni Chuanmin Hu Xiaoping Huang Catriona L. Hurd Craig Johnson Brenda Konar Dorte Krause-Jensen Dorte Krause-Jensen Kira Krumhansl Peter Macreadie Helene Marsh Len J. McKenzie Nova Mieszkowska Patricia Miloslavich Patricia Miloslavich Enrique Montes Masahiro Nakaoka Kjell Magnus Norderhaug Lina M. Norlund Robert J. Orth Anchana Prathep Nathan F. Putman Jimena Samper-Villarreal Ester A. Serrao Frederick Short Isabel Sousa Pinto Peter Steinberg Rick Stuart-Smith Richard K. F. Unsworth Mike van Keulen Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek Mengqiu Wang Michelle Waycott Lauren V. Weatherdon Thomas Wernberg Siti Maryam Yaakub |
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J. Emmett Duffy |
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Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae |
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Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae |
title_full |
Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae |
title_fullStr |
Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae |
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Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae |
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toward a coordinated global observing system for seagrasses and marine macroalgae |
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Frontiers Media S.A. |
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Frontiers in Marine Science |
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2296-7745 |
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2019-07-01 |
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In coastal waters around the world, the dominant primary producers are benthic macrophytes, including seagrasses and macroalgae, that provide habitat structure and food for diverse and abundant biological communities and drive ecosystem processes. Seagrass meadows and macroalgal forests play key roles for coastal societies, contributing to fishery yields, storm protection, biogeochemical cycling and storage, and important cultural values. These socio-economically valuable services are threatened worldwide by human activities, with substantial areas of seagrass and macroalgal forests lost over the last half-century. Tracking the status and trends in marine macrophyte cover and quality is an emerging priority for ocean and coastal management, but doing so has been challenged by limited coordination across the numerous efforts to monitor macrophytes, which vary widely in goals, methodologies, scales, capacity, governance approaches, and data availability. Here, we present a consensus assessment and recommendations on the current state of and opportunities for advancing global marine macrophyte observations, integrating contributions from a community of researchers with broad geographic and disciplinary expertise. With the increasing scale of human impacts, the time is ripe to harmonize marine macrophyte observations by building on existing networks and identifying a core set of common metrics and approaches in sampling design, field measurements, governance, capacity building, and data management. We recommend a tiered observation system, with improvement of remote sensing and remote underwater imaging to expand capacity to capture broad-scale extent at intervals of several years, coordinated with stratified in situ sampling annually to characterize the key variables of cover and taxonomic or functional group composition, and to provide ground-truth. A robust networked system of macrophyte observations will be facilitated by establishing best practices, including standard protocols, documentation, and sharing of resources at all stages of workflow, and secure archiving of open-access data. Because such a network is necessarily distributed, sustaining it depends on close engagement of local stakeholders and focusing on building and long-term maintenance of local capacity, particularly in the developing world. Realizing these recommendations will produce more effective, efficient, and responsive observing, a more accurate global picture of change in vegetated coastal systems, and stronger international capacity for sustaining observations. |
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biodiversity seagrass network macroalgae biodiversity observation network (BON) essential ocean variables (EOV) |
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https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2019.00317/full |
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doaj-4c7921cb98a04cfe84e4f3d377a710312020-11-24T21:10:44ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452019-07-01610.3389/fmars.2019.00317435618Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine MacroalgaeJ. Emmett Duffy0Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi1Joaquin Trinanes2Joaquin Trinanes3Joaquin Trinanes4Frank E. Muller-Karger5Rohani Ambo-Rappe6Christoffer Boström7Alejandro H. Buschmann8Jarrett Byrnes9Robert G. Coles10Joel Creed11Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth12Guillermo Diaz-Pulido13Carlos M. Duarte14Graham J. Edgar15Miguel Fortes16Gustavo Goni17Chuanmin Hu18Xiaoping Huang19Catriona L. Hurd20Craig Johnson21Brenda Konar22Dorte Krause-Jensen23Dorte Krause-Jensen24Kira Krumhansl25Peter Macreadie26Helene Marsh27Len J. McKenzie28Nova Mieszkowska29Patricia Miloslavich30Patricia Miloslavich31Enrique Montes32Masahiro Nakaoka33Kjell Magnus Norderhaug34Lina M. Norlund35Robert J. Orth36Anchana Prathep37Nathan F. Putman38Jimena Samper-Villarreal39Ester A. Serrao40Frederick Short41Isabel Sousa Pinto42Peter Steinberg43Rick Stuart-Smith44Richard K. F. Unsworth45Mike van Keulen46Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek47Mengqiu Wang48Michelle Waycott49Lauren V. Weatherdon50Thomas Wernberg51Siti Maryam Yaakub52Smithsonian Institution, Edgewater, MD, United StatesDepartment of Biology, University of Pisa and CoNISMa, Pisa, ItalyInstituto de Investigaciones Tecnoloxicas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, SpainPhysical Oceanography Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, FL, United StatesRosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United StatesCollege of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesDepartment of Marine Science, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, IndonesiaFaculty of Science and Engineering, Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, FinlandCentro i-mar and Centro de Biotecnología y Bioingeniería (CeBiB), Universidad de Los Lagos, Puerto Montt, Chile0Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States1Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University, Douglas, QLD, Australia2Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil3Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom4School of Environment and Science, and Australian Rivers Institute, Coast and Estuaries, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia5Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia6University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia7Marine Science Institute CS, University of the Philippines, Quezon, Philippines8Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, FL, United StatesCollege of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States9South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China0Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia6University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia1College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States2Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Silkeborg, Denmark3Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark4Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada5Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia6Division of Tropical Environments and Societies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia7Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University, Douglas, QLD, Australia8Marine Biological Association of the UK, Plymouth, United Kingdom0Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia9Departamento de Estudios Ambientales, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, VenezuelaCollege of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States0Akkeshi Marine Station, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan1Institute of Marine Research IMR, Bergen, Norway2Department of Earth Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden3Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, VA, United States4Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, HatYai, Thailand5LGL Ecological Research Associates, Bryan, TX, United States6Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR), Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica7Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), Interdisciplinary Center for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMAR), University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal8Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States9Interdisciplinary Center for Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal0Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, NSW, Australia6University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia1Seagrass Ecosystem Research Group, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom2Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, Environmental & Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia3Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Puerto Morelos, MexicoCollege of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States4Department for Environment and Water, The University of Adelaide and the State Herbarium of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia5UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom6Oceans Institute and School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia7Ecological Habitats and Processes Department, DHI Water & Environment, Singapore, SingaporeIn coastal waters around the world, the dominant primary producers are benthic macrophytes, including seagrasses and macroalgae, that provide habitat structure and food for diverse and abundant biological communities and drive ecosystem processes. Seagrass meadows and macroalgal forests play key roles for coastal societies, contributing to fishery yields, storm protection, biogeochemical cycling and storage, and important cultural values. These socio-economically valuable services are threatened worldwide by human activities, with substantial areas of seagrass and macroalgal forests lost over the last half-century. Tracking the status and trends in marine macrophyte cover and quality is an emerging priority for ocean and coastal management, but doing so has been challenged by limited coordination across the numerous efforts to monitor macrophytes, which vary widely in goals, methodologies, scales, capacity, governance approaches, and data availability. Here, we present a consensus assessment and recommendations on the current state of and opportunities for advancing global marine macrophyte observations, integrating contributions from a community of researchers with broad geographic and disciplinary expertise. With the increasing scale of human impacts, the time is ripe to harmonize marine macrophyte observations by building on existing networks and identifying a core set of common metrics and approaches in sampling design, field measurements, governance, capacity building, and data management. We recommend a tiered observation system, with improvement of remote sensing and remote underwater imaging to expand capacity to capture broad-scale extent at intervals of several years, coordinated with stratified in situ sampling annually to characterize the key variables of cover and taxonomic or functional group composition, and to provide ground-truth. A robust networked system of macrophyte observations will be facilitated by establishing best practices, including standard protocols, documentation, and sharing of resources at all stages of workflow, and secure archiving of open-access data. Because such a network is necessarily distributed, sustaining it depends on close engagement of local stakeholders and focusing on building and long-term maintenance of local capacity, particularly in the developing world. Realizing these recommendations will produce more effective, efficient, and responsive observing, a more accurate global picture of change in vegetated coastal systems, and stronger international capacity for sustaining observations.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2019.00317/fullbiodiversityseagrassnetworkmacroalgaebiodiversity observation network (BON)essential ocean variables (EOV) |